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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:26 ADT
Kriston J. Rehberg (kriston@ibm.net)
Mon, 8 Jun 1998 12:55:30 -0400
Okay, having discovered this, are there any programs to convert the
keys from one format to another, or are the formats created in such a
way that Netscape and/or MSIE have to create the files themselves?
Kris
Ian Clysdale writes:
>No, Netscape and IE use slightly different versions of the PKCS-12 spec.
>
>I believe that it has to do with the hashing performed on the stored
>certificates - Peter Gutman wrote a very indepth article on IE's behaviour
>in this case a couple months ago that people probably have copies of still
>floating around.
>
> ian
>
>
>> ----------
>> From: kriston@ibm.net[SMTP:kriston@ibm.net]
>> Sent: Friday, June 05, 1998 9:24 AM
>> To: CodherPlunks@toad.com
>> Subject: Personal Certificates between Netscape and MSIE/Outlook
>>
>> Hi, I have a personal certificate that I created with Netscape
>> Communicator. I have followed the instructions to export the
>> certificate to a file, and then tried to use MSIE 4/Outlook98 to import
>> the certificate back into those programs and it always says "The file
>> is in an invalid format".
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? Aren't you supposed to be able to convert
>> certificates between Netscape and MSIE/Outlook? Have these two
>> programs become incompatible? I understand that this used to work,
>> since exporting the cert exports both the private and public keys in
>> an encrypted format. One of either Netscape or MSIE has changed
>> something to break this code.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kris
>>
>> PS...Sorry if this is slightly off-topic!
>>
>> --
>> Kriston J. Rehberg
>> AOL: Kriston http://kriston.net/
>>
>
-- Kriston J. Rehberg AOL: Kriston http://kriston.net/
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:26 ADT